Sean Hogan had been having meetings all afternoon with the other people in charge of the emergency but they had not decided to close the schools. Batt O’Keefe himself fresh from the hairdressers then appeared on the radio to say he had decided to close the schools and that his officials had been meeting with the man in charge of the emergency all afternoon and sure he should know and sure everyone was united and knew what they were doing.

Next week the Oireachtas is set to resume (Committees only) and on Tuesday the Joint Committee on Environment, Heritage and Local Government will meet in Committee Room 3, Leinster House to discuss the Emergency Management Group and the response to the flooding late last year, I wonder with they be bringing the backdrop with them!